However, if you try to insert them manually as: ALT+147 or ALT+148 in
notepad, they don't work!

That's because you need ALT+0147 or 0148 (for double quotes)!


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lallous wrote:
Hello

I noticed that those curly quotes have ASCII codes: 0x93 and 0x94.


So perhaps your Java program can look for 0x93 and 0x94 characters and
replace them with 0x22 which is the normal double quote.

HTH,
Elias
"jezzica85" wrote in message
...
Hi all,
I'm writing a Java program that takes a text file I made from a Word
document, and I need to be able to distinguish between apostrophes
and single
closing quotes. I've looked up the two symbols in Word, and they're
definitely different, so I tried making a shortcut key to always
insert an apostrophe, but whenever I do it it still inserts the same
character for both
apostrophes and closing quotes. Is there a way to insert an
apostrophe automatically so it looks like the straight mark it's
supposed to be in the
symbols, instead of the curly closing quote?
Thanks!
jezzica85